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Your file is "123.jpg" and your theme looks for "Cobra Computers.jpg"... You need to change one of these names to match the other. I recommend you to use a file name witout spaces that follow the 8.3 restriction, like "Cobra.jpg" (this is required if you launch the install from ms-dos) ++

2- cool but you did'nt update the post yet 4- err... yes, i read a bit to fast and didn't saw the taskbartmp.reg file. (sadly you say it's unicode, so you can't use FINDSTR) 3- no, look : >%~dp0%REGFILE% ECHO Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 >>%~dp0%REGFILE% ECHO. REG EXPORT "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop" %~dp0%REGFILE% The first two lines creates the header in %REGFILE% ; then REG EXPORT... erase %REGFILE%, making the two ECHO lines a bit... useless... redundant. ++

http://icolorfolder.sourceforge.net/ (adds a context menu for selecting between 7 colors or a custom icon, you can reshack the 7 first icons)

Bugs : 1- %~dp0 doesn't have the trailing \ when the batch is located at the root of a drive 'coz it's interpreted like %~d0 (you should use ".\file.reg" wich maps to the current directory after a CD or PUSHD %~dp0) 2- REG.exe is not shipped with win2000 (you should warn users about that) 3- REG EXPORT correctly creates .reg files with the header line in it ("Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00") 4- REG EXPORT overwrites the destination .reg file (you should use two .reg files, and optionally merge them after in there's no env var) btw, good idea

What about an open-source game with a zest of "tycoon" in it ? « Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe » from openttd.org btw, "prison tycoon"... don't know of this game, but you should be at least strange-minded to find "enjoyment" in such a thing

you took the words right out of my mouth! It kinda keeps people in line too, for example, you don't see a n00b flaming a Senior member or expert or of any higher rank very often, and if you do see it, it makes the n00b look really ignorant . OMG You guys are really thinking that when a high post count is reached, nothing can be learnt ? You guys are really thinking that the post count is directly proportional to the poster's experience ? (yeah, like maths at high scool : put experience on the X axis, post count on the Y axis, and draw a line that starts at 0,0... ) IMHumbleO, post count mainly reflects the poster's expressivity(*), regardless of its experience/professionalism/etc... e.g. i was yesterday in the dayly top ten posters. but i'm far from an expert... If you want to be seen like an expert, use this image as avatar. Guaranteed effect ! ++ (*) : babelfish translated

Why is it complicated ? 'coz windows' desktop is not made for having textless icons on it. (in other words, it has not been developped with this target in mind) You can use an alternative shell ; a dock ; a widget engine ; etc... there are lots of progs for doing that...

As you said previsouly, it's loaded here : \REGISTRY\USER\.DEFAULT And the "programmer's friendly name" of this path is HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT +

It's not "file locked by another process", it's "access denied"... And it's denied by the user named "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM", which has "full control" over this file. May i delete this user ? /kidding

Lame Ain't an Mp3 Encoder.

not enough : there's a key in HKCU\SOFTWARE\7-zip\Plugins for each extension/plugin. (witout these, 7-zip doesn't know it's associated : can be useful, can be useless, i let you find what it changes...) edit: in HKCU, not HKLM : Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\FM\Associations] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\FM\Associations\001] "Plugins"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\FM\Associations\7z] "Plugins"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\FM\Associations\arj] "Plugins"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\FM\Associations\bz2] "Plugins"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\FM\Associations\cab] "Plugins"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\FM\Associations\cpio] "Plugins"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\FM\Associations\deb] "Plugins"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\FM\Associations\gz] "Plugins"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\FM\Associations\lzh] "Plugins"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\FM\Associations\rar] "Plugins"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\FM\Associations\rpm] "Plugins"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\FM\Associations\tar] "Plugins"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\FM\Associations\z] "Plugins"="" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7-Zip\FM\Associations\zip] "Plugins"="" each of these keys matches one checkbox in the 7zip options

Try to resize horizontally the "advanced tag editor" window, and you'll get surprised...

Ok, now i understand things better... Except i have no sys32\config\default\ folder (only "systemprofile" there), but a sys32\config\default file (a hive i presume but i can't load it : access denied). no matter : seems like we all have a working solution

[ Legal notice ] I'm never absolutely certain of any/something. Generally speaking, all i say/write must be taken 'AS IS', should be true or should be false, should be right or should be wrong, should be what i beleive or should be a lie, should help you or should deserve you ; it should even be randomly typed characters that mean absolutely nothing despite the apparences... You've been warned ! [ / Legal notice ] Yes, i'm sure it works for the tweaks i use. If you want a fully foolproof solution, use the reg.exe tool to load the "default user" hive in another key : REG LOAD HKU\Default_User "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\ntuser.dat" REG IMPORT mytweaks.reg REG UNLOAD HKU\Default_User In this case, you'll use "HKU\Default_User" in mytweaks.reg instead of HKCU.

Why not using another browser than IE ? That's not forbidden by MS EULA... I were told that Mozilla Firefox rocks. Maybe you can give it a try ? It may suits you so well that you choose its icon as avatar... *revolted againts easy-revolts*

in fact, it will lead to random bugs. WMP11 works better if you add only prime amounts of files (this is because of the new hash algorithm used to index the files)

thanks Yzöwl ! seems like sometimes MS gives the name "bit number" to "constants"... (it makes a confusion with NoDriveAutorun...) But there's a (very) little mistake : as i said, 0x91 is the default for XP (allowing autoplay for ZIP or USB)

ASPI32 is a "driver", in other words it is a "hardware-related service", thus not shown in the services management console (it shows only "not hardware-related services"). To remove the message, you can either solve the problem (start the ASPI32 service -- i can't help on that), or disable it with the registry : go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ASPI32 and set the "Start" dword value to "4". (another solution is to boot the recovery console, type "disable aspi32" then reboot) ++

replace "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\blablabla" with "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\blablabla" (or "HKCU,blablabla" with "HKU,.DEFAULT\blablabla" in .inf files) but this will not affect ALL users, only those created after you import the tweaks (not a problem in unattended setups, but don't forget about it after) what i do is "duplicate" reg tweaks : both HKCU & HKU\.DEFAULT in the same file, i import it during T-13 (at this time, both keys are the same one), and i import it again after first admin logon (at this time, HKCU is the admin user and HKU\.DEFAULT is the default user) [you can't use oobeinfo.ini to create users with this method]

Windows modifies default user's settings on first gui boot (before first logon), some tweaks should be applied (again) right after... e.g. nlite uses a nlite.inf file, and runs it at multiple times during setup. ++

According to Microsoft, there is two values under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer to control Autorun settings : NoDriveAutoRun (to disable/enable autorun on specified drive letters) and NoDriveTypeAutoRun (to disable/enable autorun on specified class of drives). NoDriveAutorun is stored as a REG_DWORD in which each bit set disable autorun for the correspondig drive. Use the calculator in scientific mode to convert from binary to hex. Example to diable autorun on drives A, B, C, D, I, R and W : ------ZY XWVUTSRQ PONMLKJI HGFEDCBA 00000000 01000010 00000001 00001111 => set the value to 0x0042010F (to disable all drives : 0x03FFFFFF ; to enable all drives : 0x00000000 or delete the value) NoDriveTypeAutorun is stored a a REG_DWORD or 4-byte REG_BINARY, and it's very unclear how to use it... Microsoft says : Bit Number Bitmask Constant Description 0x04 DRIVE_REMOVEABLE Disk can be removed from drive (such as a floppy disk). 0x08 DRIVE_FIXED Disk cannot be removed from drive (a hard disk). 0x10 DRIVE_REMOTE Network drive. 0x20 DRIVE_CDROM CD-ROM drive. 0x40 DRIVE_RAMDISK RAM disk. But nearly every other source i found says that "bit numbers" are wrong (see for example this one, well explained) TweakUI only controls DRIVE_REMOVEABLE and DRIVE_CDROM here... Common values found here & there : 0x91 => enabled for CD & removeable (default for XP) 0x95 => enabled for CD (default for every other windows) 0xB5 => disabled for CD (used by most tweaking apps to disable autorun) i hope all this geek stuff will enlighten you

To extract to a specified folder, you'll need 7zCon.sfx (console version, no config.txt). It offer these options : 7-Zip SFX 4.32 Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Igor Pavlov 2005-12-09 Usage: 7zSFX [<command>] [<switches>...] <Commands> l: List contents of archive t: Test integrity of archive x: eXtract files with full pathname (default) <Switches> -o{Directory}: set Output directory -p{Password}: set Password -y: assume Yes on all queries You can reproduce "winzip sfx overwrite" mode with : my-7zcon-sfx.exe -oC:\MyDir -y ++

It didn't happened to me. There were a mandatory download : "WGA Tool", needed to proceed to download pages. But the "WGA Notifications Tool" you're talking about was optional (thus my question...) : only presented in "windows update"... Suppose you're living in USA, and you have a driver license since two years (a legit driver license). Suppose you want to buy a car. You get two solutions : 1) go to a shop, choose the car you want, show your license to the seller, get the car you wanted, and voilà 2) go to the police station, ask the policeman if your license is legit making him suspicious, go to the shop, choose the car you want, show your license to the seller, get the car you wanted, use it, but the policeman will remember you, and since "normal people" (read: those who are not paranoiac) doesn't go to the police station asking if their legit driver license is legit, he will randomly arrest you, check you tires, and let you go. I'm not saying you're paranoiac, but you choosen the second solution. I see two ways to "go back on the first" : ask the policeman how many bucks he want to stop bugging you (dangerous) ; or wait until he find a more enjoying hobby. BUT IN NO WAY YOU NEED TO HOWL IN THIS FORUM !

About the "working folder"... try to use that : cmd.exe /C %01%\SETUP.cmd %01% is the folder of the inf file... this way i hope CMD.EXE will found your batch about uninstall, did you tried : cmd.exe /C "%01%\SETUP.cmd uninstall" about all your problems : you really should learn to create InnoSetups

Yes, their best use is movies & video clips live encoding & streaming btw, i like the new library feature (i was looking for that since soooo much time...), the track durations shows up near the song title in the playlist if large enough only (and you can get song rating there simply by making it wider) In fact, that's all but a waste of space !